There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.
TV is the place that writers want to be.
I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.
The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.